He was trying to find his footing in a world both familiar and foreign

The only thing you deserve is what you earn

You don't get what you deserve, you get what you earn.

We don't deserve anything; we must work for everything.

I don't believe in dreams. I believe in going after it.

It's like our daddies and moms always used to tell us growing up, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you earn.

Produce results on the mat and in the classroom

Academics and wrestling, you cant separate the two.

One of George H. W. Bush's early teachers at Andover wrote, "At the moment he is intellectually immature for his powers of reasoning are not entirely developed.

He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.

He was a generous but subtly demanding boss.

A code is like love, it has created with clear intentions at the beginning, but it can get complicated.

If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.

When in life you are destined great, but fated to a humble background, it always gets really worse before it gets really better.

If the show encourages an audience to ask the question, "Is this character's emotional response to this situation valid?," then that's a really good question to ask.

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause.

What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.

Do not look for joy anywhere else. It is living in you, and gives meaning to all Existence.

I get recognised a lot. If there are a load of school kids together, they'll shout at me, but I'm quite good at giving grief back. I give as good as I get.

Somewhere in [China's] soul lurks the cunning of an old dog, and it is a cunning that is strangely impressive. What a strange old soul! What a great old soul!

My hope is that this movie will affect people on a very profound level and reach them with a message of faith, hope, love and forgiveness.